A Celebration of Women
is elated to Celebrate the Life of yet another woman with the spirit of a warrior.
Challenged most of her life with depression, this powerhouse has Risen Above her trials, found her calling and is now here paying it forward, to help the Women of our World.
WOMAN of ACTION
Jen Frankel
“When I was young, I wanted to be David Bowie. I know the “baby book” my mother kept goes from teacher to ballerina to actress, but as soon as I knew you could be an individual rather than an occupation, there was no going back. But it was Bowie not Madonna, Picasso instead of Kahlo, Dickens never Wolfe. Men’s art was about the art; women’s was about the struggle to be recognized as an artist. I didn’t want to have to fight that battle.
‘I just wanted to BE, to DO, and above all, to CREATE‘.
My childhood ended early because, even at 8 or 9 I realized that despite my desires, every act would be a struggle. My family treated my passion with incomprehension, and responded to my deep pain with the advice to stop thinking so much, and that I would be happy if I accepted that I was “ordinary.” I embarked on a lifetime of depression.
How could I remain myself when I found no reflection of who I was in what I saw around me?
How, when I was constantly told that my only choice was to be something other than myself?
How could I find my path when there was no role model to follow, no mentor to ease my fears, no voice to tell me it was okay to be myself?
Somehow, despite the crippling exhaustion, headaches, anhedonia (an inability to experience any form of pleasure), and intense feeling of alienation, I never stopped. I kept writing, and drawing, and recording music. I never stopped putting myself on stage or into new and potentially frightening situations. Through the darkness of 25 years of deepening clinical depression, the thing that was me found like hell.
I felt like I’d never caught a single break in life until I moved to Toronto and, exhausted, barely able to leave the apartment despite just having finished a one-woman show at the Fringe, I entered a drug study program at Sunnybrook Hospital. There at last, I was able to find help and validation. There is pressure on us to believe that it is up to us to solve our own problems. But the truth is that sometimes, the help you need can only come from outside.
‘There should be no shame in this. Humans are social animals. We need one another. I needed to be diagnosed, validated, treated, and above all, SEEN.’
Despite my depression and the feeling that I was always going it alone, I’ve accomplished much, and it’s just the beginning. I believe in the power of creation over the easy road of destruction. I believe in the power of storytelling to unite us across cultures, ages, and across the gender divide.
And most of all, I believe that it is up to women to lead by becoming everything they are capable of, to provide both women and men with role models. I take my own responsibilities very seriously, both to do what I can with my own talents and to make the world a better place in whatever way I can.”
The Last Rite, Jen Frankel * Video Online Only.Prologue. ‘Supernatural thriller novel by Jen Frankel. As if it wasn’t hard enough to be a thirteen year old with a single parent family and a dark past, now Maggie Stuart finds herself a pawn in a power struggle as old as time itself. Fortunately for her, Maggie is no ordinary young girl.’
BEAUTIFUL – Watch short film SEX, CONVERSATION and a “little bit” more
‘Young factory worker + Older Artist = Good conversation and a little bit more …’
100 WORDS FOR LOVE – Jen Frankel’s closing thoughts …
FIND Jen Here – LINKS Official Site http://www.jenfrankel.com
Company Site – Wildcard Pictures http://www.wildcardpictures.com
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2412314/
THE LAST RITE audio book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5VxwmY6uNY
FILMS
100 Words for Love (music by Jen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCyRdRK2gs
Beautiful (written by Jen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlu31Jzn0c
YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/wildcardpix
Festival Site http://www.wildsound.ca
MUSIC
http://www.reverbnation.com/jenfrankel
@jenfrankel
http://www.facebook.com/jen.frankel
A Celebration of Women
celebrates this life and welcomes her into our Alumni of WOMEN of ACTION, with open arms.
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Jen Frankel – WOMAN of ACTION
June 20, 2012 by
